meadow suRpRiSeS

by Lois Brandt Phillips - Class VII C.B.S.E.

The POEM

Meadow have surprises

You can find them if you
look
Walk softly through the
velvet grass,
And listen by the brook.

Velvet = silken/softy ,Brook = a small stream

Meadow = a field of green grass

Brook = a small stream

B
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You may see a

butterfly
Rest upon a
buttercup
And unfold its
drinking straws
To sip the nectar
up
NECTAR = a sweet fluid produced by flower

Dandelion = a flower

Buttercup = a flower

Drinking straw = Small dringing pipers

You may scare a rabbit

Who is sitting very still;
Though at first you may not see
him,
When he hops you will

Scare = frighten
Hops = jump / spring

A Dandelion whose fuzzy head

Was Golden days ago

Has turned to airy parachutes

That flutter when you blow

Fuzzy = Having soft texture

Flutter=move like the wings of bird
Blow = exhale with force

Explore the meadow houses,

The burrows in the ground,
A nest beneath tall grasses,
The ants amazing mound

mound
Burrows = A whole in the ground made by an animal
Mound = A pile of earth

Oh! Meadows have

surprises
And many things to tell;
You may discover these
yourself,
If you look and listen
well.
Discover = find out

SUMMARY
A WALK across a me3adow reveals many
wonderful things. We will find grass as cozy as
velvet. There may be a brook also. There will
be flowers and the butterflies drinking nectar
from them. While doing so it seems to us its
body parts like a drinking straw ,We may see a
rabbit jumping around. Above all, there we will
find wild flower plants like the dandelion. Its
light yellow flower move like parachutes when
we blow on them. There are burrow in the
ground which house certain animals. Under the
tall grasses we may see the ants amazing
mound[homes]. In fact the meadows are full of
surprises. ;he who knows how to see and listen
will find out them himself.